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STAR CHARTS FOR COTTAGE & CAMPSITE VIEWING
SkyNews
JULY/AUGUST 2013
The Canadian
Magazine of Astronomy & Stargazing
SUMMER
STARGAZING
ISSUE
Follow a Trio of Planets
and the Moon
Catch the Perseid
Meteors at Their Best
5
‘Killer Apps’ for
Campsite Stargazing
Kepler’s Latest Planet Finds and Rethinking
the Habitable Zone
Stellar Evolution in One Night
Venus’s Unsolved Mystery
CLOSE
UP OF CENTRAL REGION
OF TRIFID NEBULA IN SAGITTARIUS
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CONTENTS
JULY/AUGUST 2013
Volume XIX/Issue 2
COLUMNS
36
07 EDITOR’S REPORT
TERENCE DICKINSON
Contemplating Your Universe
Whether in a group or as solitary observers,
astronomy enthusiasts embrace nature’s tapestry
of a starry night
20 WILDERNESS ASTRONOMER
PETER M
C
MAHON
Five ‘killer apps’ for stargazing at a campsite
Gear doesn't always get in the way of enjoying
Canada’s wild skies. It can enhance the experience.
39 ON THE MOON
GARY SERONIK
The Smallest Crater
Have you ever wondered which of the Moon’s
myriad craters is the smallest?
44 OTHER WORLDS
RAY VILLARD
Habitable Zone Questions
In April, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-
hunting spacecraft had detected two super-
Earth-class planets within the habitable zone
around the star Kepler-62
46 NORTHERN NIGHTS
KEN HEWITT=WHITE
Ken’s Photon Phobia
Nightfall. Clear. I was in my backyard patiently
observing with my telescope when a little breeze
came up. Oh, no!
46
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FEATURES
14 GALACTIC ASTRONOMY
CHART AND TEXT BY GLENN L
E
DREW
OBSERVING THE CYCLE
OF STELLAR EVOLUTION
Take a tour of the star-formation process, from birth through death, in just
a single night!
18 GALLERY
RARE CELESTIAL SIGHTS
A colourful lakeside aurora zapped by a spectacular bolide—what a shot!
DEPARTMENTS
26 EXPLORING THE NIGHT SKY
BY ALAN DYER
A PLANET DANCE
AND PERSEIDS
Three planets and the Moon cluster in the dawn sky, while the annual Perseid
meteor shower peaks under nearly perfect conditions
10 LETTERS
22 SCOPING THE SKY
KEN HEWITT=WHITE
Summer Icon: Eagle Nebula
Behold the Eagle Nebula, 6,500 light-years from
Earth. Pale but enticing, the Eagle is a telescopic
treat when scrutinized from a dark observing site.
24 STAR CHART
Night Sky for Summer for Canada
and the Northern United States
32 PHOTO TIPS
BY ALAN DYER
SHOOTING THE
SHOOTING STARS
Here are the main techniques for capturing a multitude of meteors. For the best
results, seek out a dark site with an open view to the northeast and no bright urban
glow on the horizon.
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COVER: The Trifid Nebula
(M20), in the constellation
Sagittarius, is a hotbed
of new star formation
(see feature article begin-
ning on page 14).
IMAGE PROCESSING BY ROBERT
GENDLER USING IMAGE DATA
FROM SUBARU TELESCOPE,
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
AND MARTIN PUGH
34 GALLERY
HALO AND HORSEHEAD
In the hands of our readers, today’s DSLR and CCD cameras, combined with
remarkable processing software, can yield astonishing results
36 VISUAL PLANETARY ENIGMA
BY WILLIAM SHEEHAN AND KLAUS BRASCH
THE ‘LOCH NESS’ OF VENUS
The strange saga of the Ashen Light of Venus
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